ADNI's anagram DIAN, the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, based at Washington University in St Louis, is taking another approach to the biomarker question.

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Sarantis Symeonoglou is professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St Louis, US. He has spent years trying to tie locations on Ithaki to details in the poem.

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Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis looked at how a protein CUGBP2 interacted with the mRNA for Cox-2 in eight types of human cancer cells.

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He can now move his fingers and toes again, and last month doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, US, discovered his brain has maintained a near-normal ability to detect feeling and movement.

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